What do we do with things we don't need any more? Ideas, images, thoughts, approaches, names, abandoning the ones which don't seem to work is an essential part of the creative process, if we don't leave something behind its pretty impossible to move forwards at all.
We go through a similar process in other areas of our lives. Some people move on quicker than others, leaving redundant relationships, jobs or homes without so much as a backward glance as soon as they lose their sparkle, become too difficult or get boring, or simply because something better turns up which distracts their attention. Others resist change desperately, or simply hoard everything, accommodating the new alongside all the accumulated junk of years. There's security in accumulation but it's easy to drown completely in all the excess information.
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